Monday, July 21, 2014

Joel Kovel, Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine

A call to transform Israel into a secular democracy by a leading writer
-- This book is absolutely fundamental for those who reject the
unfortunate confusion between Jews, Judaism, Zionism and the State of
Israel -- a confusion which is the basis for systematic manipulation by
the imperialist power system. It convincingly argues in favour of a
single secular state for Israelis and Palestinians as the only
democratic solution for the region. Zionism creates a terrible
contradiction that eats away at the soul and conscience of the Jewish
people. The problem is that you can't have a democratic state for just
one people while excluding the others. It is just a logical
impossibility. The notion of democracy derives from universal ideals
based on universal human rights; it cannot exist where there is a
systematic inequality, and all the more so when these others are those
who have been dispossessed by Zionism.